The Ministry of Lands, Public Works, and Housing and Urban Development raised the alarm over the high number of forged title deeds at the Kisumu land office.
Cabinet Secretary for Lands, Public Works, and Housing and Urban Development Alice Wahome further noted that land disputes bordering on boundaries were also on the rise in Kisumu.
Wahome who made an impromptu visit at the lands office in Kisumu said that existing disputes should be solved amicably through use of elders and surveyors.
The CS said that officers who collude in order to generate fake land titles will be dealt with severely. Wahome termed fake land deals as one of the headaches currently dogging her ministry.
She said for many years, hundreds of helpless Kenyans have lost their hard-earned money and property under the hands of unscrupulous crooks working in cahoots with land registration officers and said the time has come to root out such elements from the government.
She promised to go all out in weeding out illegal land transactions which she said formed the root of the many problems that has plagued the ministry since independence.
Wahome said that they intend to ramp up revenue upto 300 million shillings moving forward.
She said the government was at the moment working on a number of markets and housing projects across the country.
By Fredrick Odiero.
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